Biases in the Perceived Prevalence and Motives of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Prevention Behaviors among Chinese High School Students in Hong Kong

• Main Authors: TAM, Kim-Pong, LAU, Ivy Yee-Man, CHIU, Chi-Yue
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: actor-observer bias; false consensus; pluralistic ignorance; severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); social cognitive biases; Hong Kong; Asian Studies; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/241
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In two studies conducted in Hong Kong during and immediately after the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), participants displayed several social cognitive biases when they estimated the prevalence of and inferred the motives underlying SARS preventive behaviors. First, participants...